The African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian Atlantic

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-45
Keyword(s):  
Slave Trade ◽  
African Slave

Mooring Aslima

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-180
Author(s):  
Zainab Cheema
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
African Slave ◽  
Sex Worker

Abstract In Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille, the entanglement of Spain and Morocco emerges through the diasporic figure of Aslima, the Moroccan sex worker. This essay examines McKay’s Maurophilia, which he circuitously refers to as “Afro-Orientalism” in his various writings. Maurophilia not only foregrounds Aslima’s associations with Spain and Morocco but also highlights McKay’s engagement with transhistorical Mediterranean diasporas, including the intra-African slave trade and Iberian Moriscos and conversos settling in North Africa following the Reconquista. This essay argues that while Aslima’s associations with Moorish-Iberian performance styles influence McKay’s modernist poetics and radical aspirations for a global pandiasporic Black alliance, Romance in Marseille ultimately forecloses the prospect of a pan-Mediterranean, Black Atlantic globalism because of contradictions of gender and religion.

The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807

1984 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 841
Author(s):  
Richard S. Dunn ◽  
Jay Coughtry
Keyword(s):  
Rhode Island ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
African Slave

How Much Is Your African Slave Worth?

differences ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-168
Author(s):  
Anthony Bogues
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Black Body ◽  
Modern World ◽  
African Slave ◽  
Atlantic Slave Trade ◽  
Racial Slavery

Arguing that racial slavery was a foundation of the modern world and of capitalism, this essay details the historical ways in which the organization of debt and credit networks were integral to the Atlantic slave trade. The author contends that the enslaved body of the African was itself commodified and, as such, opened new technologies of rule. Contemporary forms of commodification, indebtedness, and saturation, the essay concludes, draw from some of the ways in which the enslaved black body was ruled.

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